LONDON: The United Kingdom heads to the polls on Thursday (Jul 4) in a general election that is expected to see the main opposition Labour party return to power after 14 years. Here are the main players in the nationwide vote. KEIR STARMER
LONDON: The United Kingdom heads to the polls on Thursday in a general election that is expected to see the main opposition Labour party return to power after 14 years.Labour leader Keir Starmer addresses an audience of Labour Party members and supporters during a rally at the Royal Horticultural Halls in central London, during campaigning for the Jul 4 general election, on Jun 29, 2024.
Supporters see him as a pragmatic, safe pair of hands, ideally suited to managing Britain back from economic decline. The keen footballer and Arsenal fan was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to criminal justice but rarely uses the prefix"Sir" before his name.Britain's Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader Rishi Sunak, delivers a speech as part of a Conservative campaign event in the build-up to the UK general election on Jul 4, in Leeds, northern England on Jun 27, 2024.
He heads the hard-right Reform UK party, whose poll numbers indicate it could deprive the Conservatives of several key seats needed to win re-election. Neither Ed Davey's Liberal Democrats nor John Swinney's Scottish National Party will win the election - but they could have a say in who does. Swinney, 60, does not sit in the UK parliament but is first minister in the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, having taken over the leadership of the SNP in May following Humza Yousaf's resignation.
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